Portrait Life of Lincoln: Life of Abraham Lincoln, the Greatest American, Told from Original Photographs Taken with His Authority During the Great Crisis Through which He Led His Country--treasured Among the 7000 Secret Service War Negatives in the Brady-Gardner Collection at Springfield, Massachusetts, and in Private Collections, Valued at $150,000, Collected by Edward Bailey Eaton |
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... THE CHALLENGE THAT TESTED LINCOLN'S STRENGTH EARLY every man must. Original in the Collection of American Celebrities - Owned Lincoln as he appeared in the political campaign in 1858. by Mr. L. C. Handy of Washington , D. C..
... THE CHALLENGE THAT TESTED LINCOLN'S STRENGTH EARLY every man must. Original in the Collection of American Celebrities - Owned Lincoln as he appeared in the political campaign in 1858. by Mr. L. C. Handy of Washington , D. C..
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... L. C. Handy of Washington , D. C. THE INSPIRATION OF LINCOLN'S PATRIOTISM T HERE is nothing in. Photograph taken in summer of 1860 for campaign purposes - Original negative owned by Mr. M. C. Tuttle of St. Paul , Minnesota - Print ...
... L. C. Handy of Washington , D. C. THE INSPIRATION OF LINCOLN'S PATRIOTISM T HERE is nothing in. Photograph taken in summer of 1860 for campaign purposes - Original negative owned by Mr. M. C. Tuttle of St. Paul , Minnesota - Print ...
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... Photograph taken at Presidential mansion in Washington , in 1861 , Photograph of Lincoln taken just before leaving Springfield for the. in first spring of Lincoln's occupancy - Print in collection of Mr. L. C. Handy of Washington.
... Photograph taken at Presidential mansion in Washington , in 1861 , Photograph of Lincoln taken just before leaving Springfield for the. in first spring of Lincoln's occupancy - Print in collection of Mr. L. C. Handy of Washington.
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... L. C. Handy at Washington , District of Columbia Lincoln's Attorney - General in 1861-1863 EDWARD BATES of Missouri. Original negatives taken from 1861-1865 by Mathew Brady of Washington.
... L. C. Handy at Washington , District of Columbia Lincoln's Attorney - General in 1861-1863 EDWARD BATES of Missouri. Original negatives taken from 1861-1865 by Mathew Brady of Washington.
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... L. C. Handy at Washington , District of Columbia Lincoln's Secretary of Interior in 1863 1865 JOHN P. USHER of Indiana Now in the Original Brady Collection at Springfield , Massachusetts Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury in 1865 HUGH ...
... L. C. Handy at Washington , District of Columbia Lincoln's Secretary of Interior in 1863 1865 JOHN P. USHER of Indiana Now in the Original Brady Collection at Springfield , Massachusetts Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury in 1865 HUGH ...
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Page 137 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember, or overthrow it.
Page 140 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 46 - I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 30 - Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 134 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of a contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Page 124 - If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from Federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the Federal Territories...
Page 124 - Our fathers, when they framed the government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better than we do now.
Page 140 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of...
Page 133 - I now reiterate these sentiments ; and in doing so I only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence of which the case is susceptible, that the property, peace, and security of no section are to be in anywise endangered by the now incoming administration.
Page 135 - The course here indicated will be followed, unless current events and experience shall show a modification or change to be proper...